Tony Williams
Well-Known Member
Not about scale models as such, but I hope this is an appropriate forum to ask about painting replica cartridges made from solid aluminium alloy.
As some of you may know, I have quite a lot of such replicas of cartridges which are more or less unobtainable (in the photo below, eight of the eleven grenade rounds are replicas). All of these were made for me by Mick Wilkinson, a fellow collector and ECRA member who many of you will know.
Very sadly Mick suffered a major stroke a few weeks ago. He has survived it and is able to speak again, and the medics appear to be very cautiously optimistic about the future, but he has a long period of uncertainty ahead, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for him.
At the time, Mick was part-way through making another batch of replicas for me. I now have some which need painting, so I'm going to try to tackle these myself (although I have zero experience of this). A few have grey primer on them, others are just bare aluminium. I'd be grateful for any advice about the kind of primer and paint I'll need (the three key colours being brass, copper and matt black), where I might buy them from (I'll only need small quantities), anything else I might need to do the job, and any tips on painting technique.
Thanks for any help.
As some of you may know, I have quite a lot of such replicas of cartridges which are more or less unobtainable (in the photo below, eight of the eleven grenade rounds are replicas). All of these were made for me by Mick Wilkinson, a fellow collector and ECRA member who many of you will know.
Very sadly Mick suffered a major stroke a few weeks ago. He has survived it and is able to speak again, and the medics appear to be very cautiously optimistic about the future, but he has a long period of uncertainty ahead, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for him.
At the time, Mick was part-way through making another batch of replicas for me. I now have some which need painting, so I'm going to try to tackle these myself (although I have zero experience of this). A few have grey primer on them, others are just bare aluminium. I'd be grateful for any advice about the kind of primer and paint I'll need (the three key colours being brass, copper and matt black), where I might buy them from (I'll only need small quantities), anything else I might need to do the job, and any tips on painting technique.
Thanks for any help.
